Hi, On 26.03.2020 10:10, Michael Tremer wrote: > Hi, > >> On 26 Mar 2020, at 07:24, Matthias Fischer wrote: >> >> ... >> I'm wondering, too... ;-) > > There are a couple of reasons: > > The image libraries are used to generate graphs. There are multiple ways do encode those and there are plenty of interdependencies to it. Image libraries. Ok. I see the point. Can be useful. > The audio libraries are being used for libvirt, tshark to capture and decode audio and video, too. > > There are a couple of media streaming add-ons which also can re-encode things. It is of course up to everyone to decide if they want/need to use it. ACK. >>... >> >> Let the discussion begin... ;-) > > I do not really want to re-open this one again. We dealt with that on repeat about 10 years ago. I did not know that this had been discussed before and no, I don't want to start all over again... > They are add-ons. There are plenty of others where I personally disagree with and yet they are in the distribution. People have different needs. Yes, they have. From my point that's ok then. Best, Matthias